How to use a controller, keyboard and mouse at the same time in Skyrim

I really love the video game Skyrim. I found it such an awe inspiring human creation. It's such a beautiful game.  Having said that, I really dislike one thing about it: Skyrim completely disables the keyboard and mouse when you connect an Xbox controller. Why? It makes no sense!

I searched from forum to forum to find a way around this and I found only partial solutions that were reasonable complicated, but I decided to figure out a simple solution that not only works, it gives me full control of all keyboard functions with my controller.

It's actually pretty simple. The first thing I had to do is disable the controller support in the game.

1. Click View in a file explorer window and check "Hidden items"
2. Go to the follow path C:\Users\your_name_here\Documents\My Games\Skyrim
3. Right click on SkyrimPrefs.ini and select edit
4. Search for the line bGamepadEnable=1 and change it to bGamepadEnable=0
5. Download Antimicro and install it.
6. Turn your controller on.
7. Map the keys to whatever keyboard and mouse functions you want or download the one I use (which I think is totally awesome).
8. Play Skyrim and enjoy your freedom to switch back and forth from keyboard, mouse and controller at your whimsy. 

The Antimicro file I use for skyrim does the following:

A jumps, B sneeks/crouches, x picks stuff up, Y equips weapon

start is escape

back is the character menu

left stick is WASD

right stick is the mouse

right trigger is attack/left mouse

left trigger is left hand attack/right mouse

left stick button is run.

The D-pad is mapped to the map, the C key and some other stuff.

But the really cool thing is what the left and right shoulder buttons do. Hold down the left shoulder button and it shifts all the buttons to the shortcut keys 1-8.

Hold down the right shoulder button and the left shoulder button becomes the shout key and the other buttons become unused keys on the keyboard that can be mapped to whatever you want if your using mods like Convenient horses etc.

Anyway, if this brightens the day of a single Skyrim fanatic out there then my joy is full.